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Rusha Wesley documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS367f
Scope and Content
This collection contains items relating to Rusha Wesley's activity as a school principal at Lee Street School in Atlanta, Georgia, including a membership ticket in the National Education Association, a farewell yearbook from her fellow principals, and a guest sign in book, perhaps from a going away party in her honor.
Dates:
1929-1946
Russell Bellman Gone With the Wind Premiere Film
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS189
Scope and Content
The collection, in its original format, is a single reel of spliced 16mm black and white, and color film shot by Russell Bellman during the festivities and premiere of Gone With the Wind. The beginning of the footage captures the Atlanta Junior League Ball at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium and was shot in black and white and color. Bellman shot the black and white portion from an elevated position panning the auditorium grandstands and floor area. The...
Dates:
1939
Ruth and Ethel Cockrell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1184
Scope and Content
This collection includes high school annuals, printed materials, diplomas, and correspondence concerning the Cockrells' personal education and their careers in education. The majority of the materials focus on Ethel Cockrell. The two annuals, from Roosevelt High School and Girls' High School, were dedicated and inscribed by Ethel Cockrell's students. Emory University materials include transcripts, commencement programs, the 1933 commencement address, and newspaper clippings concerning...
Dates:
1913-1976, undated
Ruth and Jean Henson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS782f
Scope and Content
This collection contains yearbooks and notebooks from Powder Springs High School and Cartersville High School. Of particular interest is Jean Henson's 1913 yearbook, which contains some of his earlier poetry and prose. There is also a flier for a Ridgedale Baptist Church radio program called "The Hour of Power" and Ruth's freshman year cooking notes.
Dates:
1913-1920, undated
Ruth Dabney Smith scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS884
Scope and Content
This collection consists of four scrapbooks kept by Ruth Dabney Smith as a young musician in Atlanta, Georgia. The earliest scrapbook consists of programs of concerts and performances she attended. The majority of the other three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings regarding Smith, her family and friends, her students, and musical performances.
Dates:
1907-1958
Ruth Henley photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS368
Scope and Content
This collection contains black and white photographs collected by Ruth Henley of John Willis Henley inside the Fulton County Courthouse and portraits of Atlanta Journal newspaper carriers on a trip to Washington D.C., in 1910, one of whom may be Thomas Henley.
Dates:
1906-1910
Ruth Neal scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS247f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook of sketches of Southern women from unidentified newspapers.
Dates:
1895-1896
Ruth Smith Wrench scrapbook and marriage certificates
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS338
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook of items of interest to Ruth Smith Wrench. It includes such events as the Rickenbacker plane crash in Morrow, Georgia, and the founding of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (Trappist) in Conyers. It also includes national news such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and trial and the death of John Dillinger. A folder contains two marriage certificates.
Dates:
1934-1949
Ruth Wichelhausen papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS930
Scope and Content
The Ruth Wichelhausen papers have been arranged in five series. Series have been designated for Correspondence, Legal Documents, Personal Papers, Medical Papers, and Otto Wichelhausen's Papers. The correspondence has been further subdivided into three subseries: family, friends, and professional correspondence. The correspondence covers the period 1928-1993 and is both incoming and outgoing. The family correspondence is of special interest because most of it concerns Jewish life in Nazi...
Dates:
1908-1995, undated
S. H. Kress and Co. collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS390
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of materials pertaining to the S. H. Kress Company.
Dates:
1932-1952
Sadie Estelle Martin Partridge papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS647f
Scope and Content
The Sadie Martin Partridge papers include a narrative reminiscence of her youth and photocopies of newsclippings from 1972. In the narrative, Sadie describes the life of a well-to-do young girl in turn-of-the-century Atlanta. She emerges as a spunky, flirtatious young woman. She also describes the millinery trade in Atlanta, social activities of the time period, and her memories of the 1906 Atlanta race riot. The newsclippings feature Sadie much later in her life, when she babysat to...
Dates:
1972-1980
Sage family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS599
Scope and Content
This collection contains annual accounting ledgers, correspondence, United States Navy flight logs, and a scrapbook. Dr. Daniel Y. Sage's account ledgers cover his medical practice, 1931-1940. Correspondence consists of reports sent by the Creditors Mercantile and Adjustment Agency, a collections agency, following up on claims submitted by Dr. Sage. Also included are Daniel Y. Sage, Jr.'s Naval flight logs, 1941-1945, when he was stationed at Pensacola, Florida, where he received...
Dates:
1923-1945
Sale, Simmons, and Matheson family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS6
Scope and Content
This collection documents four generations of the Sale, Simmons, and Matheson families. Examination of the images indicates they were probably taken during the same photographic session with the exception of VIS 6.6.
Dates:
1852-1853
Sally A. Parker photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS143
Scope and Contents of the Records
The photographs in this collection depict geographic locations and people in Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia. Buildings include the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Hunter Street, the Georgia State Capitol building, Marvin Cemetery (formerly Cold Springs Cemetery), and the residences of William Cobb, Frederick Koch, Edwin W. Marsh, and Augustus Pitt. The collection includes several images of the Margaret Mitchell burial plot at Oakland Cemetery. Images of people include Fred...
Dates:
1948-1949
Sally Connally Martin scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS218f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook of invitations, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings regarding deaths, weddings, anniversaries, and social events in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1913-1925
Sally Eugenia Brown papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS43
Scope and Content
These papers consist of ephemera such as greeting card, receipts, postcards, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1888-1927, undated
Sally Eugenia Brown photograph album
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS238
Scope and Content
The photograph album documents the travels of Sally Eugenia Brown from approximately 1890-1902. Identified photographs show the “Eden Fair” (location unknown) in September 1900; Mount Washington in New Hampshire; Saratoga, New York; and “Storyman Camp” (location unknown) in 1902. The remaining images include exterior views of building and homes, railroad trains and stations, streetcars, ships, and scenes of natural waterfalls. Of note are three albumen prints of Brown and her family.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1902
Sally F. White papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1128
Scope and Content
This collection consists of correspondence, news clippings, research materials, manuscripts, records, and other documents from Sally F. White's work with various public service organizations. The bulk consists of material regarding White's work with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as well as other archival material from the 1996 Olympics and Paralympics. The collection also contains documents created by the Atlanta Fashion Group during the United States Bicentennial in...
Dates:
1949-2010, undated
Sally Fanny Gleaton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.mss1208
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials that document Sally Fanny Gleaton's career in women's suffrage advocacy. The bulk of papers are from the National League of Women Voters, which include annual convention pamphlets, financials, rosters, and receipts from hotels. Other items include a scrapbook, newspapers and clippings, a "Votes for Women" banner, greeting cards, and correspondence between Gleaton and other leaders and members of the women's suffrage movement.
Dates:
1907-1935, undated
Sally Garrison's account of the Atlanta Campaign
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS173f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a photocopy of Sally Garrison's handwritten account of her recollections of her experiences during the Atlanta Campaign. Her account spans from 1863 to 1864 and includes details of the following; conditions in Atlanta right before the raid, the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the shelling of the city, the surrender of Atlanta, and her experience as an exile fleeing to Macon, then to Dawson, Georgia until the end of the war. It was written at the request of the Thurza...
Dates:
1863-1864
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